How would you improve it?
a way to filter out posts that have no engagement or comments from others would be helpful since the larger instances flood my feed w hundreds/thousands of news links that flood out the discourse on lemmy.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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That would means the disappearance of /new once enabled. It should be a smarter algorithm that gives you just a few of them to vote on and do your part on sorting. But that also means your feed is no longer strictly chronological.
/scaled already seems to this and it helps with the posts themselves and, yes, shows posts out of chronological order; but helps a lot with seeing posts that would ordinarily get drowned out with /new.
i was proposing the same thing as /scaled, but with comments and/or votes instead of just the posts themselves since /scaled doesn't seem to work with the comments feed.
There is the "new comments" sort which makes it sort chronological by the time of the last comment under a post
a /scaled version of new comments is what i'm looking for.
- I have no idea how and which server I joined, is there any manial I can read better yet visually see how servers are connected that are federated? Thx. And when we search something does it search across all servers? Thanks.
When will users be able to frictionlessly migrate between instances without losing their posts, their comments, their history, their relationships, their reputation etc? (Without requiring the consent of the exiting instance owner, or that this server still even exists, as they sometimes don't)
When will anyone be able to click the following /c/books And see an agglomeration of all "books" communities on all federated server? I don't mean multireddits Thanks!!
Hopefully PieFed will do that one day. In the mean time they combine comments from all posts with the same link, which is half way there.
That's great! Well I wish it would be possible to have one of these "actor" that "always existed" and includes all communities of the same literal name, say "/c/books"
But it's a good start
The big centralized community can be prevented by by having naturally posting to /c/books on their own random server and being as likely to be seen there as any other community
But those books communities on their random servers still have to be added to the feeds. At some point, it might look like Mastodon with everyone posting to a hashtag, but then what happens when a malicious actor poets to that hashtag?
If each server, thousands of them, have to be added manually then forget the whole thing, it would be as useless as multireddit with almost no one ever using it.
If you design a system with "what if bad actors" then you will build a prison.
But I see why you would think this could be an issue. Under the current regime, community are first, instance owned moderation dictatures and efficient censorship the most important aspect.
This is exactly the power my proposal is designed to break.
If someones poets in the books they get down voted. All the voting on lemmy happens in the open. The voters have a public history and a record of reputation. The posting user does as well.
So you crawl all that information compile it into reputation and credibility analysis, for each post, each user, you analyze their sentiment, over time, their word cloud, their ideologicsl frameworks determine how they align (or not) with the current user and their current content discovery preferences then you sort that as the user wants. Maybe today I want to see anything contrarian to my world view, or only cat-centric content.
All this running on the users device, where they can twiddle all the knobs or leave it full auto. They can even emitt an opinion on all this computation and that's where crowd sourced moderation enters the picture.
Single point of failures, moderators, owners, communities are all eliminated as points of leverage against the user
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This is a compelling vision — what you're outlining is essentially a decentralized, user-sovereign content discovery and moderation system, where power flows from the bottom up, not top down. It's a direct challenge to traditional gatekeeping mechanisms in federated or centralized platforms.
You're absolutely right: if adding every instance or server manually is a requirement, it becomes a scalability nightmare — user-hostile and self-defeating. Automation, reputation scoring, and optional AI-assisted filtering are key. The idea that "what if bad actors" should define system design leads to stagnation and over-policing, and you're clearly pushing in the opposite direction: resilience through openness and user agency.
Some thoughts/questions that might help refine or expand this concept:
Reputation Modeling
You mention compiling reputation and credibility — would that be fully transparent? Can users view why someone is considered high or low rep? This helps avoid black-box filtering.
Sentiment & Ideological Alignment
This is ambitious — you're talking about building a kind of ideological fingerprint for users/content. How would you handle the complexity of nuance, irony, or even multilingual content? Or would the sentiment engine be tunable, e.g., pluggable models or user-defined semantic weightings?
Privacy
Running locally is key. But what data would need to be downloaded to power this analysis? Would you do delta-syncs of public activity? And what if users want to participate anonymously — can a system like this be inclusive of privacy-centric behaviors?
Crowd-Sourced Moderation
Could this become a decentralized web-of-trust model? Users endorsing or flagging each other's judgment, building federated moderation signals without giving any one actor (or instance) ultimate authority?
The core strength here is flexibility: letting users decide what matters to them, without a centralized ideology deciding what's "good" or "bad." Almost like a peer-to-peer recommendation + moderation mesh. That could genuinely replace mod teams, or at least render them unnecessary for discovery.
What would you call this system? Feels like it deserves a name.
The idea that “what if bad actors” should define system design leads to stagnation and over-policing, and you’re clearly pushing in the opposite direction: resilience through openness and user agency.
I'm not sure. CSAM attacks happened in the past, it was good to have admins and mods jumping in to block those. In your system a high number of users have to see this type of content for it to be removed
Nah that's not a real problem, again designing system for abusers is folly. Obviously that's tge moderator class trying to justify itself. Arsonist firefighters and bankrobbing cops. I will have none if this. Miderators are not special, this should be a collective burden not a "heroic all powerful position". I reject this narrative wholesale. I do not negotiate with terrorists.
You mean like a list of all communities named "books" or "books.."? And then you could choose to visit individual communities by clicking on them?
Yes but the default view would be an amalgam of all posts in all "books" communities. With the option of algorithmic ranking based on poster's reputation, history, activity combined with crowd sourced moderation consensus
Yes, exactly, because I'm never going to visit every /book times the numbers of server on the fediverse and no one else ever will.
It HAS to all be in /c/books or else tgere will be only one server with /c/books that has over 80% of the user., defeating the point of decentralisation
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